Should I up my calories to TDEE? Will I gain?

healthyandhappy120301

As posted in another thread, I am hovering at max 1400-1500 with around 70 mins of exercise per day for around 6 days and reached a plateau of 60kg at 171cm. I am wondering if eating more at this stage will help me to maintain or lose a little more weight? Can anyone enlighten me?
Apparently my TDEE is around 2100 and my garmin says I burn about 1800-1900 without adding exercise...

Jthanmyfitnesspal

I did not find the activity monitor calorie estimates to be accurate enough. I felt like the numbers were too high. I suggest instead just using the estimates provided by MFP, adding in my exercise calories. Another approach is to play with the activity level, watching your weight and adjusting appropriately. My maintenance experience with this approach has been good.

LivingtheLeanDream

Up your calories by a few hundred calories for a few weeks, see how things pan out and then if you are still losing, up them again. It takes a little time to figure out true maintenance calories, it is highly likely your TDEE isn't far away from 2100, its probably more actually.

You will 'gain' water weight when you up your calories as the glycogen stores replenish but thats normal and temporary, within a few weeks that will settle down.

As an example I'm only 5ft 2 and not as active as you by the sounds of it and I maintain on almost 2000 calories.

carolns4534

What is TDEE?

gvizzle74

If you're at a plateau, you need to eat less.

MegaMooseEsq

carolns4534 wrote: »

What is TDEE?

Total daily energy expenditure, made up of BMR (metabolic rate, or what your body burns just to keep you alive), TEF (thermal effect of food, or the energy used digesting food), NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or movement outside of intentional exercise), and intentional exercise, which has a nifty acronym that I currently can't remember. See https://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/metabolic-rate-overview.html for more detail.